Im not sure this is the right forum for this as Im not a practitioner or students of optometry, but It did seem to fit here.
I study computer science (fourth year) and for a project I'm planning to make a wearable electronic magnifier for people with low vision. Something similar would be the vuzix LV920 SightMate (http://www.vuzix.com/medical/lv920.html). Basically you have a camera mounted on the head, processing equipment to modify and enlarge the image stream and a head mounted display which will display the modified and enlarged stream. The main additional feature/mode that I'm thinking of adding is that instead of always zooming into the middle, the system can center the zoomed in region around the index finger or a point. So my thinking is that instead of having to move the head very carefully, it would allow the person to just point to the region they want magnified. And so to read text you would just trace it with a finger. Kind of like a magnifying glass, but with greater magnification and you don't have to hold the lens, just point and trace.
So what I'm wondering is does working on such a project make sense and would such a technology if developed, be helpful to someone with low vision.
Any help with that would be really appreciated. It seems to make sense to me, but I know little about low vision and have never worked with anybody with low vision.
Thanks,
jk
I study computer science (fourth year) and for a project I'm planning to make a wearable electronic magnifier for people with low vision. Something similar would be the vuzix LV920 SightMate (http://www.vuzix.com/medical/lv920.html). Basically you have a camera mounted on the head, processing equipment to modify and enlarge the image stream and a head mounted display which will display the modified and enlarged stream. The main additional feature/mode that I'm thinking of adding is that instead of always zooming into the middle, the system can center the zoomed in region around the index finger or a point. So my thinking is that instead of having to move the head very carefully, it would allow the person to just point to the region they want magnified. And so to read text you would just trace it with a finger. Kind of like a magnifying glass, but with greater magnification and you don't have to hold the lens, just point and trace.
So what I'm wondering is does working on such a project make sense and would such a technology if developed, be helpful to someone with low vision.
Any help with that would be really appreciated. It seems to make sense to me, but I know little about low vision and have never worked with anybody with low vision.
Thanks,
jk
